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LEO M. FRANE. 331

as I am that I was elected to the position by the people of
this community, to the offies of Solicitor General, but I have
never yet seen the man that I would ‘take as my model or
pattern; I follow the dictates of my own conscience. And
if there is one act aince I have been Solictor General of
which I am proud, it is the fact that I joined hand and glove
with the detectives in the effort to seek the murderer of
Mary Phagan, and when your influence poured letters in to
the Grand Jury, in an effort to hang an innocent man, negro
though he be, that I stood firmly up against it. If that be
treason, meke the best of it. And if you don’t want me to
do it, then get somebody else to fill the job, and the quicker
you do it the better it will suit me. I will not pattern myself
after anybody or anybody’s method, not even Mr. Hill, and,
bless his old sont, he was grand and great, and I have wished
a hundred times that he was here today to make the speech
that I’m now making. There wouldn't be hair or hide left
on you,—he was as noble as any Roman that ever lived, as
courageous as Julius Caesar, and as eloquent as Demosthenes.
Such talk as that don’t scare me, don’t terrify me, don’t dis-
turb the serenity of my conscience, which approves of every-
thing that I have done in the prosecution of this man.

Now, let’s come back here and discuss this thing of per-
jury, let’s talk about that a little, let’s not get up here and.
say that everybody is a liar without citing any instances and
that they are crack-brain fanatics, let’s knuckle down and
get specific instances. So this Mrs, Small says she saw Jim
Conley,—‘Did you see Mr. Frank up there on any of those
dayat’’ “I saw Mr. Frank after that crime on Tuesaday.”
“What time Tuesday?’ ‘‘I eouldn’t tell you, I guess be-
tween eight and nine o’clock, he and Miss Carson were ¢com-
ing up from the back end of the factory (Miss Rebecca, I
presume).’? ‘‘He and Mra. Carson were coming up from
the back end of the factory, and I stepped up in front of
him and I said ‘Here, Mr. Frank, wait a moment, 0. K. this
tieket,’ he says ‘are you going to put me to work as soon as I
get here?’ and I says ‘Yes it’s good for your health.’ He

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